BECAUSE I FEEL THE NEED TO REVEL IN NOSTALGIA FROM 2004
LOTR Where Are They Now? - part II : the rest of the cast aka the post that ONTD rejected because the mods have deemed that WATN posts are "dumb". Since I believe 10 pages of comments doesn't equal "nobody cares", I saved the the code and am now posting it here in its entirety.
Here's part II to our LOTR where are they now? festivities. Part I with the 9 of the Fellowship is here. Behind the cut you'll find the rest of the cast. The final part will (some day, but it is not this day) include key members of the crew and ppl I probably forgot to include in this one.
Bring your honey cakes, Dorwinion wine and gifs and let's get the party started! To warm you up for the comments, here's a fanboy ~confessing his LOTR sins~.
The Elves
Cate Blanchett
Where do I even start? One of the happiest moments of my life as a nerd was when I heard that my all time top favourite actress would be playing the one character that is dearer to me than anyone else ever. Yeah, Cate as Galadriel. Still quite can't believe it, and I'm willing to forgive so much about these movies for this fact alone.
Anyway.... Cate. The Supreme Queen of England, Ireland, France, Virginia, Middle-earth and the Universe before, during and after the trilogy. Her recent movie roles include Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (for which she won an Oscar), Babel, Notes On A Scandal, Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and of course Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. She's currently filming Ridley's Scott's Robin Hood opposite Russell Crowe. She is not going to appear as voice in Fantastic Mr Fox as reported previously but Cancer Vixen seems to be back on her upcoming projects list. Her latest theatre appearances include Hedda Gabler and War of the Roses.
She has three children with her screenwriter/film editor husband Andrew Upton: Dashiell John Upton (b. 2001), Roman Robert Upton (b. 2004) and Ignatius Martin Upton (b. 2008). Cate and Andrew have 3-year contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. One of their goals is to eco-renovate the Theatre Company building self-sufficient, making it the first green theatre company in the world. She has also appeared in several climate conferences urging the business and world leaders to battle global warming.
THEN AND NOW
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Hugo Weaving
Hugo of course played the part of Elrond Half-elven. Since the trilogy, his movie roles have mostly been voice acting - in films such as Happy Feet (alongside Elijah Wood) and Transformers but he was also V in V for Vendetta and played Lionel opposite Cate in Little Fish. This year he's again the voice of Megatron in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen but will also star in The Wolf Man with Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro - the cast also includes Kiran Shah (one of the Hobbit stand-in/stunt doubles and Ginarrbrik in the first Narnia movie). His recent theatre work includes the same Hedda Gabler production Cate starred in. Among his future project is a supporting role in his friend Jeremy Sims' World War I drama Beneath Hill 60, in which he'll play a British officer struggling with claustrophobia. The role was written for Weaving, who is also claustrophobic.
Hugo has two children with his wife Katrina Greenwood: Harry (b. 1989) and Holly (b. 1993). He is the primary ambassador for Australian animal rights organization Voiceless.
THEN AND NOW
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Liv Tyler
Liv played Arwen. After the trilogy she has appeared in Jersey Girl opposite her Armageddon co-star Ben Affleck, as well as in Lonesome Jim, Reign Over Me, The Strangers and The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton. Rumored future projects are The Romantics, Fellini Black & White and a sequel to the Strangers. She first became a spokesperson for Givenchy perfume and cosmetics in 2003 and recently signed a contract for two more years.
Liv was married to British musician Royston Langdon since 2003 but the couple confirmed a separation in May 2008. She moved from New York to to LA after the separation. They have a son, Milo William Langdon (b. 2004). She's an active supporter of UNICEF.
THEN AND NOW
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Marton Csokas
Marton played Celeborn. His movie roles since the trilogy include The Bourne Supremacy (with Karl Urban), Kingdom of Heaven (with Orlando Bloom) and Æon Flux. He has also continued his career in the theatre in plays such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Antony and Cleopatra. He has two movies coming out next year: The Debt (with Helen Mirren) and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
He's been dating Eva Green since they met in the set of Kingdom of Heaven.
THEN AND NOW
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Craig Parker
Craig Parker played the role of Haldir. Since the trilogy he has done voice work in the recent Power Rangers series and revisited his Shortland Street character after being absent from the show for 11 years. He's also in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and plays the villain Darken Rahl in the NZ-based Legend of the Seeker (alongside many other Kiwi LOTR cast and crew members). He has also done theatre roles, voice-overs for New Zealand documentaries and been a regular guest at various cons. He is currently filming Spartacus: Blood and Sand with Lucy Lawless.
He officially came out as gay in an article for the New Zealand Herald in January 2008.
THEN AND NOW
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Bret McKenzie
Bret McKenzie played an unnamed elf extra in the Council of Elrond scene. However, he was quickly dubbed "Figwit" by the fans (see figwitlives.net if you really are that clueless) and as a result got a speaking role in ROTK as "elf escort". Since then, he appeared in a couple of small films and found international fame as the other half of Grammy Award-winning duo Flight of the Conchords.
He married Hannah Clarke in March 2009 and they are expecting a baby.
THEN AND NOW
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The Men
Karl Urban
Karl played Éomer. Since the trilogy his films have included The Chronicles of Riddick, The Bourne Supremacy and most recently Star Trek. He also had a part in the mini-series Comanche Moon. His upcoming work includes Black Water Transit with Laurence Fishburne and And Soon the Darkness.
Karl has two sons, Hunter (b. 2000) and Indy, with his wife Natalie.
THEN AND NOW
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Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill was Théoden. His recent film work includes Wimbledon, Save Angel Hope (with Billy Boyd), Franklyn and Valkyrie. He has also done some tv roles (The Grid, Fairy Tales and Sunshine) as well as narrated the BBC docu-drama Surviving Disaster. He is currently filming The Kid with Natascha McElhone and Ioan Gruffudd.
He is married and has a son named Gabriel.
THEN AND NOW
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David Wenham
Daisy played Faramir. Since the trilogy, he has had roles in Van Helsing, 300 and Australia among other films. He also stars in the music video for Alex Lloyd's single "Brand New Day" and recently played Jerry Springer in Jerry Springer - The Opera. He can soon be seen in Public Enemies alongside Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale and Giovanni Ribisi.
David has two daughters, Eliza Jane (b. 2003) and Millie, with his partner Kate Agnew. He is a supporter of many varied charities, among them the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Save Ningaloo Reef, Amnesty International Australia and the Fred Hollows Foundation.
THEN AND NOW
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John Noble
John Noble played Denethor. Since the trilogy he has visited in many tv series including Stargate SG-1, Home and Away, The Lost Treasure of Fiji and 24. His recent films include One Night with the King and Running Scared (with Elizabeth Mitchell among others). He is currently starring in the J.J. Abrams tv series Fringe and is also set to appear in a film called Risen.
He has three children with his wife Penny: Samantha, Jessica and Daniel. Samantha is an Australian tv and film actress.
THEN AND NOW
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Miranda Otto
Miranda played the HBIC Éowyn. Her films since the trilogy include Flight of the Phoenix and War of the Worlds and she has
starred in tv series Cashmere Mafia, The Starter Wife and Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story. Her next films include In Her Skin with Sam Neill and Guy Peace and Blessed.
She's been married to actor Peter O'Brien since 2003 - they met while performing in A Doll's House. They have a daughter Darcey (b. 2005).
THEN AND NOW
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Brad Dourif
Brad was Gríma Wormtongue. He has since done a lot of films, including the 2007 remake of Halloween and Sinner as well as provided the voice for Chucky in Seed of Chucky. In television he's played Doc Cochran in Deadwood. His upcoming works includes Touching Home with Ed Harris, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans alongside Nicholas Cage and Val Kilmer and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done with Willem Dafoe and Chloë Sevigny.
Brad has two daughters with his ex-wife Jonina: Fiona (b. 1981) who is an actress, and Kristina.
THEN AND NOW
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Others
Andy Serkis
Andy became Sméagol/Gollum. His films since the trilogy include 13 Going on 30, The Prestige and Inkheart. He also appeared in Stories of Lost Souls which also includes segments with Cate and Billy Boyd. He has also continued to work for Peter Jackson in CGI roles: he was Kong in the King Kong remake and will play Captain Haddock in the upcoming The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. He will be playing the 1970s rock star Ian Dury in a biopic called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll which starts shooting in summer 2009. He is also of course expected to reprise his role as Gollum in the Hobbit films.
Andy has published a book titled Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic (ISBN 978-0618391042) which describes how a 3-week commission to provide a voiceover for Gollum grew into a five-year commitment to the trilogy.
Andy's wife is actress Lorraine Ashbourne, and they three children: Ruby (b. 1998), Sonny (b. 2000) and Louis (b. 2004).
THEN AND NOW
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Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee played the wizard Saruman. In the recent years he has continued to add to his amazingly long list of roles with titles such as Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, The Golden Compass (with Ian McKellen), The Colour of Magic (with Sean Astin) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In 2006 he appeared in Rhapsody of Fire's album "Triumph or Agony" as well as published his own album "Revelation". His upcoming movies include Boogie Woogie, Glorious 39 and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (with Marton and a lot of other cool folks).
He has been married to the Danish ex-model Birgit Kroencke (also known as Gitte Lee) since 1961. They have a daughter named Christina Erika (b.1963).
He has publicly announced that he won't be part of the Hobbit films - though the reason he stated was that he's too old to travel as far as NZ and not that he wouldn't want to, so we can hope that if they arrange his scenes to be shot closer to home he'll still play Saruman.
THEN AND NOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmg5tOj5W3A since embedding has been disabled for that video.
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Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm played the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. His most recent films include The Day After Tomorrow, The Aviator (with Cate), Lord of War and Ratatouille. He is next set to appear in This Side of the Looking Glass which is rumored to also star Naveen Andrews, Brendan Fraser and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
He has been married to artist Sophie de Stempel since 2003 - she's his 4th wife. He has 5 kids from previous marriages and relationships - most of whom seem to be working (or have worked) in films/tv. His son Harry is engaged to Samantha Morton.
THEN AND NOW
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Sources! cateblanchett.net, lovelylivtyler.com, Craig Parker fansite, Karl Urban fansite, Wenham Wonderland, John Noble official site, miranda-otto.com, serkis.com (official), wikipedia, youtube, imdb & the one fandom to rule them all.
I've been compiling this monster for about 12 hours now (NO KIDDING, and that doesn't even include some background work done earlier) so I hope you enjoy! :P Let me know all the details I forgot/got wrong.
Here's part II to our LOTR where are they now? festivities. Part I with the 9 of the Fellowship is here. Behind the cut you'll find the rest of the cast. The final part will (some day, but it is not this day) include key members of the crew and ppl I probably forgot to include in this one.
Bring your honey cakes, Dorwinion wine and gifs and let's get the party started! To warm you up for the comments, here's a fanboy ~confessing his LOTR sins~.
The Elves
Cate Blanchett
Where do I even start? One of the happiest moments of my life as a nerd was when I heard that my all time top favourite actress would be playing the one character that is dearer to me than anyone else ever. Yeah, Cate as Galadriel. Still quite can't believe it, and I'm willing to forgive so much about these movies for this fact alone.
Anyway.... Cate. The Supreme Queen of England, Ireland, France, Virginia, Middle-earth and the Universe before, during and after the trilogy. Her recent movie roles include Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (for which she won an Oscar), Babel, Notes On A Scandal, Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and of course Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. She's currently filming Ridley's Scott's Robin Hood opposite Russell Crowe. She is not going to appear as voice in Fantastic Mr Fox as reported previously but Cancer Vixen seems to be back on her upcoming projects list. Her latest theatre appearances include Hedda Gabler and War of the Roses.
She has three children with her screenwriter/film editor husband Andrew Upton: Dashiell John Upton (b. 2001), Roman Robert Upton (b. 2004) and Ignatius Martin Upton (b. 2008). Cate and Andrew have 3-year contracts as artistic co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. One of their goals is to eco-renovate the Theatre Company building self-sufficient, making it the first green theatre company in the world. She has also appeared in several climate conferences urging the business and world leaders to battle global warming.
THEN AND NOW
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Hugo Weaving
Hugo of course played the part of Elrond Half-elven. Since the trilogy, his movie roles have mostly been voice acting - in films such as Happy Feet (alongside Elijah Wood) and Transformers but he was also V in V for Vendetta and played Lionel opposite Cate in Little Fish. This year he's again the voice of Megatron in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen but will also star in The Wolf Man with Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro - the cast also includes Kiran Shah (one of the Hobbit stand-in/stunt doubles and Ginarrbrik in the first Narnia movie). His recent theatre work includes the same Hedda Gabler production Cate starred in. Among his future project is a supporting role in his friend Jeremy Sims' World War I drama Beneath Hill 60, in which he'll play a British officer struggling with claustrophobia. The role was written for Weaving, who is also claustrophobic.
Hugo has two children with his wife Katrina Greenwood: Harry (b. 1989) and Holly (b. 1993). He is the primary ambassador for Australian animal rights organization Voiceless.
THEN AND NOW
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Liv Tyler
Liv played Arwen. After the trilogy she has appeared in Jersey Girl opposite her Armageddon co-star Ben Affleck, as well as in Lonesome Jim, Reign Over Me, The Strangers and The Incredible Hulk with Edward Norton. Rumored future projects are The Romantics, Fellini Black & White and a sequel to the Strangers. She first became a spokesperson for Givenchy perfume and cosmetics in 2003 and recently signed a contract for two more years.
Liv was married to British musician Royston Langdon since 2003 but the couple confirmed a separation in May 2008. She moved from New York to to LA after the separation. They have a son, Milo William Langdon (b. 2004). She's an active supporter of UNICEF.
THEN AND NOW
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Marton Csokas
Marton played Celeborn. His movie roles since the trilogy include The Bourne Supremacy (with Karl Urban), Kingdom of Heaven (with Orlando Bloom) and Æon Flux. He has also continued his career in the theatre in plays such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Antony and Cleopatra. He has two movies coming out next year: The Debt (with Helen Mirren) and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
He's been dating Eva Green since they met in the set of Kingdom of Heaven.
THEN AND NOW
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Craig Parker
Craig Parker played the role of Haldir. Since the trilogy he has done voice work in the recent Power Rangers series and revisited his Shortland Street character after being absent from the show for 11 years. He's also in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and plays the villain Darken Rahl in the NZ-based Legend of the Seeker (alongside many other Kiwi LOTR cast and crew members). He has also done theatre roles, voice-overs for New Zealand documentaries and been a regular guest at various cons. He is currently filming Spartacus: Blood and Sand with Lucy Lawless.
He officially came out as gay in an article for the New Zealand Herald in January 2008.
THEN AND NOW
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Bret McKenzie
Bret McKenzie played an unnamed elf extra in the Council of Elrond scene. However, he was quickly dubbed "Figwit" by the fans (see figwitlives.net if you really are that clueless) and as a result got a speaking role in ROTK as "elf escort". Since then, he appeared in a couple of small films and found international fame as the other half of Grammy Award-winning duo Flight of the Conchords.
He married Hannah Clarke in March 2009 and they are expecting a baby.
THEN AND NOW
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The Men
Karl Urban
Karl played Éomer. Since the trilogy his films have included The Chronicles of Riddick, The Bourne Supremacy and most recently Star Trek. He also had a part in the mini-series Comanche Moon. His upcoming work includes Black Water Transit with Laurence Fishburne and And Soon the Darkness.
Karl has two sons, Hunter (b. 2000) and Indy, with his wife Natalie.
THEN AND NOW
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Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill was Théoden. His recent film work includes Wimbledon, Save Angel Hope (with Billy Boyd), Franklyn and Valkyrie. He has also done some tv roles (The Grid, Fairy Tales and Sunshine) as well as narrated the BBC docu-drama Surviving Disaster. He is currently filming The Kid with Natascha McElhone and Ioan Gruffudd.
He is married and has a son named Gabriel.
THEN AND NOW
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David Wenham
Daisy played Faramir. Since the trilogy, he has had roles in Van Helsing, 300 and Australia among other films. He also stars in the music video for Alex Lloyd's single "Brand New Day" and recently played Jerry Springer in Jerry Springer - The Opera. He can soon be seen in Public Enemies alongside Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale and Giovanni Ribisi.
David has two daughters, Eliza Jane (b. 2003) and Millie, with his partner Kate Agnew. He is a supporter of many varied charities, among them the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Save Ningaloo Reef, Amnesty International Australia and the Fred Hollows Foundation.
THEN AND NOW
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John Noble
John Noble played Denethor. Since the trilogy he has visited in many tv series including Stargate SG-1, Home and Away, The Lost Treasure of Fiji and 24. His recent films include One Night with the King and Running Scared (with Elizabeth Mitchell among others). He is currently starring in the J.J. Abrams tv series Fringe and is also set to appear in a film called Risen.
He has three children with his wife Penny: Samantha, Jessica and Daniel. Samantha is an Australian tv and film actress.
THEN AND NOW
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Miranda Otto
Miranda played the HBIC Éowyn. Her films since the trilogy include Flight of the Phoenix and War of the Worlds and she has
starred in tv series Cashmere Mafia, The Starter Wife and Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story. Her next films include In Her Skin with Sam Neill and Guy Peace and Blessed.
She's been married to actor Peter O'Brien since 2003 - they met while performing in A Doll's House. They have a daughter Darcey (b. 2005).
THEN AND NOW
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Brad Dourif
Brad was Gríma Wormtongue. He has since done a lot of films, including the 2007 remake of Halloween and Sinner as well as provided the voice for Chucky in Seed of Chucky. In television he's played Doc Cochran in Deadwood. His upcoming works includes Touching Home with Ed Harris, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans alongside Nicholas Cage and Val Kilmer and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done with Willem Dafoe and Chloë Sevigny.
Brad has two daughters with his ex-wife Jonina: Fiona (b. 1981) who is an actress, and Kristina.
THEN AND NOW
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Others
Andy Serkis
Andy became Sméagol/Gollum. His films since the trilogy include 13 Going on 30, The Prestige and Inkheart. He also appeared in Stories of Lost Souls which also includes segments with Cate and Billy Boyd. He has also continued to work for Peter Jackson in CGI roles: he was Kong in the King Kong remake and will play Captain Haddock in the upcoming The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. He will be playing the 1970s rock star Ian Dury in a biopic called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll which starts shooting in summer 2009. He is also of course expected to reprise his role as Gollum in the Hobbit films.
Andy has published a book titled Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic (ISBN 978-0618391042) which describes how a 3-week commission to provide a voiceover for Gollum grew into a five-year commitment to the trilogy.
Andy's wife is actress Lorraine Ashbourne, and they three children: Ruby (b. 1998), Sonny (b. 2000) and Louis (b. 2004).
THEN AND NOW
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Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee played the wizard Saruman. In the recent years he has continued to add to his amazingly long list of roles with titles such as Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, The Golden Compass (with Ian McKellen), The Colour of Magic (with Sean Astin) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In 2006 he appeared in Rhapsody of Fire's album "Triumph or Agony" as well as published his own album "Revelation". His upcoming movies include Boogie Woogie, Glorious 39 and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (with Marton and a lot of other cool folks).
He has been married to the Danish ex-model Birgit Kroencke (also known as Gitte Lee) since 1961. They have a daughter named Christina Erika (b.1963).
He has publicly announced that he won't be part of the Hobbit films - though the reason he stated was that he's too old to travel as far as NZ and not that he wouldn't want to, so we can hope that if they arrange his scenes to be shot closer to home he'll still play Saruman.
THEN AND NOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmg5tOj5W3A since embedding has been disabled for that video.
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Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm played the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. His most recent films include The Day After Tomorrow, The Aviator (with Cate), Lord of War and Ratatouille. He is next set to appear in This Side of the Looking Glass which is rumored to also star Naveen Andrews, Brendan Fraser and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
He has been married to artist Sophie de Stempel since 2003 - she's his 4th wife. He has 5 kids from previous marriages and relationships - most of whom seem to be working (or have worked) in films/tv. His son Harry is engaged to Samantha Morton.
THEN AND NOW
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Sources! cateblanchett.net, lovelylivtyler.com, Craig Parker fansite, Karl Urban fansite, Wenham Wonderland, John Noble official site, miranda-otto.com, serkis.com (official), wikipedia, youtube, imdb & the one fandom to rule them all.
I've been compiling this monster for about 12 hours now (NO KIDDING, and that doesn't even include some background work done earlier) so I hope you enjoy! :P Let me know all the details I forgot/got wrong.